The latest DIY ideas, techniques and tools for bikes, rockets, R/C vehicles, toys and other diversions.
Artist Chris Burden and a crew of eight assistants are in the midst of erecting his latest work, titled “Metropolis II”. Consisting of 1,200 custom die cast cars cycling across 18 lanes, Burden claims that 100,000 cars circulate through the miniature cityscape every hour.
Searching Flickr groups for “Lego” returns over four-thousand hits. Among the interesting oddities I’ve discovered so far is the LEGO Life-Size weapons group, which has 160 items. Shown here is M4 v5 by The Dawg’s Guns. There are also Lego knives, Lego bombs–even a wearable Lego Boba Fett get-up.
Tour around New York City via a RC plane (video)… via Twitter Team Black Sheep flying in New York, over the Brooklyn and Verazano Bridge, around Downtown Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. Enjoy! How to build your own / FPV system information, camera and transmitter details, etc – here.
I really like the work Robert Hodgin is doing with a Kinect and Cinder to map a texture onto the Kinect’s sensor output. Check out his Kinect pix on Flickr. (Click pix for big.)
Found in the MAKE Flickr pool: I love these tables made from repurposed bike parts, built by Flickr user Del Cruiser.
The iFixit crew recently disassembled a fully functional Parrot AR.Drone to see what makes it tick. From the teardown you may notice that the hardware seems pretty accessible. The gear’s just begging for a mod.
The other day, I bumped into these interesting (but sold out) “trading cards” from mysterious and delightful Imaginary Foundation. I immediately did a web search and found a remaining set ($18) at an e-tailer (they only had one deck left). They came today, and they’re really nice. It’s a shame they aren’t selling them anymore. […]
